Just before the only season where it is standard practice to sit down (possibly lie down) and graze on left over Turkey, Pringles and tins of assorted chocolates while you watch endless hours of TV. we at Irish Moss Records thought it'd be a good idea to release this beast. The Reggae tune calling for you to ''sort out your life'' and telling you ''it nuh right to watch TV from morning to night''. UK Newcomer DR King and Veteran YT link on this track and remixes come in Dancehall, Jungle and Garage styles from DJ Tzinas, Frisk & Solstice and Dirty Dubsters. Drop the remote and take a listen:
Dirty Dubsters ''Special Request'' LP Out now on all good digital music sites.
Well.... It has seemed like an eternity but the day has finally come. Yes indeed, the full LP: 15 tracks from Dirty Dubsters with vocal collaborations from artists in Ireland, UK, USA, Germany, Jamaica and Russia is now available to buy online.
We have worked over a 15+ month period to get their biggest project to date off the ground and out of the studios in Dublin & London into mastering and post production stages and finally today, to the general public. We also have a string of DJ sets and live gigs in the coming weeks to promote the project.
Gigs:
London: Oct 16th @ Concrete Space W/ MC Kwasi.
Bristol: Oct 23rd @The Attic.
Dublin: Oct 25th @ The Wiley Fox (Live Show with Bongo-Wiggle, RV & Mango)
London: Nov28th @ Brixton Jamm, London (Live Show With Bongo-Wiggle, RV, Mango & Kwasi)
Anyone looking to book the lads for a show or DJ set please email Dawn Kelly: mgmt@dirtydubsters.com.
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From all at IMR HQ we hope you enjoy this record and we'll be back asap with more releases.
This week, there’s big news in the world of Irish Moss Records. Our label heads the Dirty Dubsters have begun previewing more tracks from their full-length stunner, Special Request, available October 12, 2015. Sharing the same name as the album, this single sees Bazza and Jay team up with vocalist extraordinaire: Mr Williamz. Our friends over at reggaeville.com have been kind enough to shine the spotlight on this gem, and will be featuring the official preview of this fiyah track “Special Request”. Follow the link, and get ready to pull up pull up, as this one has high probabilities of rewinds in da place! Signing off, Kayla!
Dirty Dubsters and the ''Celtic Funkster'' known as Rí Rá from Ireland's original Hip Hop crew Scary Eire link up on a Hip Hop / Reggae riddim and call up on Dancehall don Blackout JA to provide one of his signature chorus lines. This is the second official single from the forth coming Dirty Dubsters album titled ''Special Request'' .
Ri Ra's slick lyrical flow is backed up by Blackouts power hooks to devastating effect. Remixes come in from Adam Faz and DJ Maars who both opt for skanking hip hop drum breaks while Dirty Dubsters add an additional Dubwise DnB mix.
Video produced and edited by Mat jazz. Photography by Eoin Holland.
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Single Release Date: 11th September 2015
Album Release "Special Request" release date: 9th October 2015
Just a few weeks ago, our fearless leaders at Irish Moss made an exciting announcement. The Dirty Dubsters are all done their full-length album, Special Request! Barry and Jay have been locked in the lab for months now, perfecting the sounds that showcase everything Irish Moss is all about, and the results are nothing short of FIYAH! Their first single "Big Sound" has been making the rounds for a while, and it's time they opened up about it. Always shining the spotlight on everyone else, I nailed down Bazza and Jay to give me all the details on "Big Sound", from their partnership with Chip Fu and Screechy Dan to what it was like to finally finish Special Request. Big tings agwan!
Irish Moss Kayla: You guys have just
completed a full-length album. Must be an amazing feeling! How long have you
been working on it for?
DD: Yeah it’s been good to
finish this one. we’ve been here before in 2012 for our Fire it up album
but this one was a lot less stressful, it just kind of came together as a
result of us sidelining our projects for 2014 to focus on our Irish Moss
Records label. We signed lots of music and have over 30 releases on the label
now. We were also swapping projects and collabs back and forth and realised one
day that we had about 8 tracks finished with some really good artists. We had a
kind of Eureka moment and thought yeah ‘let's put another album together', and
here we are.
IMK: You guys chose “Big
Sound”, your track with Chip Fu and Screechy Dan as your first single from the
album. Is there a reason you selected this one in particular?
DD: We both really liked the track.
We have worked with the two guys before on a single that went out on NICE UP
records a few years back. This was a kind of follow up tune. It took a while to
get together, it was recorded in Dublin and two different sessions in Brooklyn
and prob took the guts of a year to complete. The two guys did a top job on it
and it just came together really nicely, We’ve been playing this one at our at our
gigs for about a year now and always get a great reaction to it so it just felt
like the likely candidate for the first single.
IMK: You’ve worked with Chip
and Screechy in the past. It must have been a rock solid team since you wanted
to work together again. Is that the case?
DD: Yeah, they’ve always
delivered on the projects we've done together. Things take more time in
general when you're working with two very busy guys based in Brooklyn. You
have to send them the right beat and be patient.
IMK: How did you get linked up
with those two anyways?
DD: We hooked up with Screechy
via a mutual friend, Whandah, who we had a track with before. We have been big
fans of Screechy since we heard him on the Kenny Dope classic "Boomin in ya
Jeep" ... and Chip Fu from the 90’s hip-hop group theFu Schnickens. I don’t think the pair had
collaborated on a project till we got them both on our tune "Chant Down
Babylon". Both are legends in their own right and they work wicked together. We're looking forward to continued works with these two and maybe even a tour at
some point.
IMK: How long until we hear the
next single?
The next single is out in
July and Features Irish HipHop MC legend Ri Ra from the group Scary Eire.
Blackout JA provides the hooks. Our good buddy Matjazz is producing an animated
video to accompany this one along with remixes from MAARS and Adam Faz. We’ve
also flipped a jungle remix to feature onthis one.
So stay tuned, Dirty Dubsters aren't done yet. Next up, single number two! Special Request is full of bangers (TRUST ME), so watch for the album's full release. This thing is worthy of daily play, and has been getting rinsed hard everywhere I go for the last couple months. Big ups Barry and Jay!
You are a threesome of foreign nationals that seem to have combined in Dublin City while in different bands/collectives. Can you expand a little on this for those who are not familiar.
1) Who is is in the collective? Where are you from originally and how did you meet up to become ArubDub?
Arubdub is a 3-piece band formed by Chris, Arek and Monica.Originally from Poland but connected here in Ireland by the love for dub and reggae vibes.
2) Who does what within the group - Producer, singers, writers, players of instruments ect?
Arek met Chris after one of Joyful Noiz concert and thats how it all started.
"I remember it well, they asked me to record vocals for two songs and we ended up doing whole album".
The person who's behind all Arubdub production is Chris. He is the brain of all operation although nothing gets pass by without agreement from two other members. Arek is the man behind guitars and bass for Arubdub and Monika is writing lyrics and getting ideas for vocal melodies."Each song is different so it brings different emotions.Based on that we know which direction exactly we want to lead it.Most of the times we all agree in process of making our music and any disagreements are often solved with a snickers bar so none of us would turn into diva.
3) How much material have you put out so far? Can you tell us a bit about the forthcoming album ?
We're at the final stage of releasing our first album called" Eternal fire"even though were already playing gigs wherever we can to put ourselves out there and let the people get familiar with our music.
4) How do you find the crowds in Dublin - are they all receptive to the sounds you are pushing?
I think reggae,dub music is still bit neglected in here but over the years we've all been here in Ireland I can see big improvement.
We
caught up with the one and only DJ Ram, the owner of Ireland's first
and only independent Reggae Music store: InDub for a chat ahead of the Paddy's
Day Skank in the Twisted Pepper. Ram will officially celebrate 15
years this St. Patrick's Day. Yes 15 years in operations, supplying the music of the Caribbean
to the people of Dublin & Ireland.
Greetings Ram, So the obvious question is how has a Libyan national ended up flogging
7'' vinyl to most of the selectas in Dublin since way back when?
Greetings. Let me start by saying greetings and salutations to all the reggae fans out there, one love & respect.
As
some of you know, I started DJing in 1994 at Andrews Lane Theatre, and we
did run lots of reggae nights throughout Dublin venues, but for years
it was very hard for me and a lot of DJs to find reggae vinyl in
Ireland. People had to go England to buy them, so it was a dream for me
to open a reggae shop that provide good reggae music(CD's&vinyl) at reasonable prices. After four years of planing the dream became true
and I opened my first store at Mother Red Caps Market in November 1999, and we
are still here, and we are bigger and stronger.
You've been involved with the reggae music scene in Ireland since the early 1990s. How have things changed in this time?
Ya
man, I have been involved with reggae since the 90's , DJing and bringing
bands and sound systems, and to be honest with you, reggae has gone a long
way from the old days. Back then there was only one reggae night on Wednesday
at Fire House Skank, now we have reggae almost every night of the
week, plus live bands playing like Bionic Rats and others. More and more reggae bands have come and played in Ireland ... I have seen
so many great bands, who played at Tripod for example, and that venue
wasn't normally a reggae place, but great gigs they were. So reggae was
accepted and embraced in Ireland, and I feel now I am part of a big
reggae family, so that's great to see.
With record stores shutting up shop left and right in the recent past, how has your store inDub managed to survive?
Ya man a lot of records stores have had to shut down over the past couple of years, but we managed to survive the recession but first
it was a very hard work just to stay open. We struggled like
everybody else, but we had great customers, the majority of them who
still had jobs kept coming and buying reggae from InDub to keep us open
and support us. We also we kept our rent small by subletting (even if
it's meant to be underground), like I did under coffee Irie in the
basement so the high rent is a killer, and what was the main reason to
stay open is that our shop is unique. Being the only reggae
store everybody comes by the shop. They like what they see. We have the
best reggae selection, but we are also the only suppliers of Riddim
Driven clothing,which is a big seller for us... and also may be my big
circle of friends. Being well known helps too - being a DJ and also
always out promoting my shop, seven days a week.
What do you sell most these days? Vinyl, CDs or Merchandise?
These
days we sell almost the same amount of reggae CDs and vinyl, but we do
sell a lot of riddim driven merchandise at the shop and especially when
we do reggae festivals, t-shirts will be the best sellers, and the rasta
hats are good seller too, as we are the only shop who sell them.
You've become a staple at the RubaDublin Reggae Festivals. How have
these gone for you so far, and what is it that makes your area so appealing
to the punters?
Well
the Rubadublin Festivals have been great for us, to showcase our music
and clothes to the people at the Rubadublin Festival. To show them what
we have, and to do that and enjoy it and make some money is a great
feeling. It's a great idea and a lot of people wished it was once
every month, so its great to be there with all these wonderful people who
all they want is good vibration.
Our area is vibrant because when the punters come in, they can see
how colourful the place is, with all the reggae t-shirts which add to
the atmosphere, and we have got such great DJs who love to
play reggae and do play great music ( Natasha, Atan, Catt, Ian, Dibo) so we like to party, and punters can see that and they love it.
Any plans for the future of the store?
Ya
man my plan for the future is to keep working hard and enjoy it, things
are getting a bit better than the past few years, so we hope to see the
store getting bigger and more and more music will be coming. We know
success is not a destination but a journey, so we are gonna enjoy
the journey.
One
love and guidance, thanks to the Dirty Dubsters and the organisers of
the fest, thanks to Twisted Pepper, but most of all, big thanks to all
the reggae fans who have supported us over the years. We could not have
done it without you, big up.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDUB RECORDS! A teenage reggae store in the beating heart of Dublin City. Big up and MAXIMUM Respect Sir.
